Winner
- “The Grinnell Method”, Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons Sep 2012)
Finalists
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
- “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”, Ken Liu (Lightspeed Aug 2012)
- “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld Jun 2012)
- “Mono No Aware”, Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)
- “The Peak of Eternal Light”, Bruce Sterling (Edge of Infinity)
- “Scattered Along the River of Heaven”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld Jan 2012)
- “Things Greater Than Love”, Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons 19 Mar 2012)
- “(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky”, E. Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld Nov 2012)
- “The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future”, Jay Lake (Subterranean Spr 2012)